Comments on: Welcome to Twitual! http://twitual.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-twitual/ Explore your Twitter friends and followers. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:26:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-alpha-15359 By: dougal http://twitual.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-twitual/comment-page-1/#comment-17 dougal Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:26:30 +0000 http://twitual.com/blog/?p=1#comment-17 Twitual was created because I had a question: "Which of my followers are also friends?". At the time I had that question, no other service made it easy to get the answer. So I wrote it. And while I was at it, I also answered the adjoining questions of who <em>doesn't</em> follow me back, and vice-versa. Yes, finding the info is pretty simple, conceptually. Get the friends and followers lists, do some array intersections and differences, and list them out. I was just the first one to actually go to the trouble to do it and present the results in an easy to view way. Twitual was created because I had a question: “Which of my followers are also friends?”. At the time I had that question, no other service made it easy to get the answer. So I wrote it. And while I was at it, I also answered the adjoining questions of who doesn’t follow me back, and vice-versa.

Yes, finding the info is pretty simple, conceptually. Get the friends and followers lists, do some array intersections and differences, and list them out. I was just the first one to actually go to the trouble to do it and present the results in an easy to view way.

]]> By: Chad http://twitual.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-twitual/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Chad Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:54:31 +0000 http://twitual.com/blog/?p=1#comment-16 What need are you solving ? This doesn't seem all to complicated, to use the twitter API to get followers and following and then do the union and intersect to show the fans, idols etc... no offense :) What need are you solving ?

This doesn’t seem all to complicated, to use the twitter API to get followers and following and then do the union and intersect to show the fans, idols etc…

no offense :)

]]> By: dougal http://twitual.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-twitual/comment-page-1/#comment-4 dougal Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:37:19 +0000 http://twitual.com/blog/?p=1#comment-4 Results are cached for 2 hours. So checking the same user again any sooner than that won't tell you anything new. At some point in the future, when some other features are in place, we'll probably play with that, and make the caching shorter, plus add a check to see if the friend/follower counts changed since the last check. Sometime sooner than that, we'll get a status message up on the page to give you an idea how fresh/old the information is. Results are cached for 2 hours. So checking the same user again any sooner than that won’t tell you anything new. At some point in the future, when some other features are in place, we’ll probably play with that, and make the caching shorter, plus add a check to see if the friend/follower counts changed since the last check. Sometime sooner than that, we’ll get a status message up on the page to give you an idea how fresh/old the information is.

]]> By: David Silverlight http://twitual.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-twitual/comment-page-1/#comment-3 David Silverlight Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:17:24 +0000 http://twitual.com/blog/?p=1#comment-3 Great tool! How often are the profiles refreshed? I just started following people that are following me. When I view my profile, it still shows that I am not following them. Do you grab the data dynamically or do you update profiles at different intervals and I should wait x minutes/hours before rechecking? <a href="http://www.twitter.com/HeadGeek" rel="nofollow">follow @HeadGeek on twitter</a><a></a> Great tool! How often are the profiles refreshed? I just started following people that are following me. When I view my profile, it still shows that I am not following them. Do you grab the data dynamically or do you update profiles at different intervals and I should wait x minutes/hours before rechecking?

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